Haley, a young hyper-liberal college student, is at a pro-choice rally and runs off to get coffee for her supervisor. Alex is walking out of the coffee shop with his skateboard in hand, and opens the door. She assumes he's holding it for her, but he lets it slam in her face, chuckling in his beanie. Indignant with all of the fury of the white upper middle class, she exasperatedly gasps, and he just gives her the get-off-your-high-horse look.
"Sorry," Alex says through his smirk.
"What the fuck?" Haley turns to face him head on, "Seriously?"
"Watch where you're going."
"You're really a conversationalist, I'd like to pat whoever taught you that on the back," Haley scoffed.
"Well that should've been my mother, but God knows she was too busy slamming headboards to teach me much, so I guess you can credit my exemplary skills to myself. Now, excuse me, I have better things to do with my time."
In an indignant rage, Haley turned on her heels and stormed away to buy coffee.
"Could I have a caramel macchiato, tall, extra caramel shot?"
"Coming right up, miss!" the exuberant barista with brown curly hair replied.
Haley went to take out her credit card from her Gucci purse when the cashier interrupted her, "Oh, don't worry about that, it's already been paid for."
"By who?"
"That guy in the navy hoodie and beanie that left a few minutes ago. He said you were friends?"
"He did?
"Well are you?"
"No. I mean, yes. I mean...thank you."
Haley mulled this act over in her head for the rest of the day, going through the motions, almost dropping the coffee on her supervisor while not paying attention. Why would he go through that effort to be nice to me?, she thought. Did he actually feel sorry for the door?
She resolved that if she ran into him, she'd apologize, but nothing else because that was all he deserved.
Meanwhile, Alex wished that appearances matched personalities, and smoked a blunt to try to forget all the beautiful, broken women he'd dealt with over the years. Why are the pretty ones bitches? he muttered between puffs, and called a lady friend to come over and rant about life with him beside the bonfire, knowing he might get lucky like he usually did. Before his blunt was done with, she had parked her black skinny jeans on the log next to him. He puffed out and revealed that he'd try to do something nice for a nice looking girl earlier, and before she could call him a pussy, he explained its less-than-perfect outcome.
"She had the most gorgeous brown hair, and you should've seen her ass, Jackie. Most suburbia girls do not have an ass like that." The more he told her, the more interested Jackie became.
"Was the girl's name Haley?" she asked.
"I have no clue," he replied, "why? do you know her?"
"She's in my English lit class, here I'm almost positive it's her, I'm gonna call her and tell her to come over."
"What?"
"Hey, um Haley? Yeah I'm doing great! Hey I'm at a bonfire right now, thought you'd like to join?...woods by the corner of Hamilton and Ivory...yeah, cool, see you soon."
"You bitch, what the hell do you think you're doing?"
"Getting you laid."
"But that's-that's what you do!"
"You'll thank me later."
~~~
Haley showed up after a half hour of musings on the meaningfulness of life's trivialities, interjecting herself into the conversation with utmost grace.
"...What the fuck is a Freud, and why the hell are you here?" she exclaimed, gesturing towards Alex.
"I thought your blood money education would've taught you that, but apparently not. Oh, and nice tits by the way."
She blushed and looked down at her cleavage briefly, slyly smiling and pulling up her shirt to look modest, but in actuality allowing it to descend further.
"Why thank you," she said, rolling her eyes.
"How much did they cost?"
"Savage," she uttered, giving him a death stare while biting her lip in disgust.
"Oh I'm kidding, I can tell a boob job from a mile away. Yours are natural, I noticed that before anything else, if it's any consolation. you go to Kings I take it?"
"Yes, they paid for half my tuition with an art scholarship," she replied.
"Well, if you ever need inspiration, I've been told my nudity is a muse."
He could tell Haley's barriers were starting to come down. She almost chuckled at that last one.
"Or amusing," she retorted.
"How about you find out?"
"How about I find out why you paid for that coffee?"